Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H49
אֲבִישַׁג
Abishagab-ee-shag'
Abishag
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼĂbîyshag
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H49is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H49
Abishag, a concubine of David
The King James renders it: Abishag.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Abishag is rendered "Abishag". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 1:3Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
1 Kings 1:3אֲבִישַׁג֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Abishag4
- and Abishag1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲבִי הָעֶזְרִי | Abi ha-Ezri | Abiezrite | Uses6 |
| אֲבִיּוֹנָה | abionah | desire | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲבִישַׁג֙1
- אֲבִישַׁ֥ג1
- אֲבִישַׁ֣ג1
- אֲבִישַׁ֤ג1
- וַֽאֲבִישַׁג֙1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npf
1 Kings
five uses
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
- אֲבִישַׁג֙ʾavishagproper noun (a name)tagged: Abishag
So Bathsheba went to see the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was serving him.
- וַֽאֲבִישַׁג֙vaavishagconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abishag
Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
- אֲבִישַׁ֥גʾavishagproper noun (a name)tagged: Abishag
So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”
- אֲבִישַׁ֣גʾavishagproper noun (a name)tagged: Abishag
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
- אֲבִישַׁ֤גʾavishagproper noun (a name)tagged: Abishag
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.